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Locknuts on 31 January 2016
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Soundwave said:
Locknuts said:
Wow here's a good paper if anyone can be bothered reading it:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/318/5850/629.full

You have to subscribe to read it (yes, I'm nerding out on climate change), but it explains quite well why the climate models have not been particularly accurate. Basically, because despite the huge increases they've had in research and computing power, climate scientists are still just as unable to predict climate sensitivity to Co2 as they were 30 years ago.

Very telling....We're not as clever as we think we are.

 

Are we clever enough to make another habitable planet on short notice in case this one goes to crap? 

That's just my POV on this, if you only have one pair of pants, you probably don't want to shit your pants ... or get ketchup all over them or whatever. If that's just common sense, why is to so different for a planet? Until we can colonize/terraform other planets we probably should err on the side of caution. 

No we're not. But I don't agree that there is any urgency as I can't find any evidence that we're approaching some 'tipping point' that will wipe out the human race.

As I've stated earlier I think that letting developing nations carbonise for now is they way to go. My understanding is that most developed nations are already decarbonising, simply because they can afford to without loss of life. Taking away coal fired power from nations such as Indonesia, Thailand, China, India, Vietnam and numerous African countries would likely result in massive loss of life.

An ETS which imposes trade restrictions on nations emitting the most carbon seems to be the way most politicians are leaning to deal with this issue, but to me it just seems dangerous. 

So we had better know what we're doing before making any drastic changes and start starving the world's poor. Even if we were to spread the wealth to help with adaptation, once again the corrupt politicians of developing nations would line their pockets as they are sovreign nations, accountable only to themselves.